Chet Holmes has been called "one of the top 20 change experts in the country." He helps his clients blow away both the competition and their own expectations. And his advice starts with one simple concept: focus! Instead of trying to master four thousand strategies to improve your business, zero in on the few essential skill areas that make the big difference.

Too many managers jump at every new trend, but don't stick with any of them. Instead, says Holmes, focus on twelve critical areas of improvement—one at a time—and practice them over and over with pigheaded discipline.

The Ultimate Sales Machine shows you how to tune up and soup up virtually every part of your business by spending just an hour per week on each impact area you want to improve. Like a tennis player who hits nothing but backhands for a few hours a week to perfect his game, you can systematically improve each key area.

Holmes offers proven strategies for:

Management: Teach your people how to work smarter, not harder

Marketing: Get more bang from your Web site, advertising, trade shows, and public relations

Sales: Perfect every sales interaction by working on sales, not just in sales

The Ultimate Sales Machine will put you and your company on a path to success and help you stay there!

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Chet Holmes is one of the greatest teachers of marketing, sales, and business success in the world today. This incredible book will supercharge results in every part of your business. (Brian Tracy, author of The Way to Wealth)

Reading Chet HolmesÆs book can turn your business into a high-performing, massively profitable, superior money-making force in whatever field or market you compete in. . . . ItÆs essential reading for anyone craving business greatness and prosperity. (Jay Abraham, author of Getting Everything You Can Out of All YouÆve Got)

Chet has the best material IÆve seen for how to attract an army of top producers and how to get the most out of them once you get them. (T. Harv Eker, bestselling author of Secrets of the Millionaire Mind)

The Ultimate Sales Machine is an amazing book that will powerfully change the way you do business. Chet Holmes is a one-of-a-kind talent and this incredibly practical book is the embodiment of his highly successful approach. (Stephen M. R. Covey, author of The Speed of Trust)

The Ultimate Sales Machine [is] a book that puts it all together to help you dramatically increase your sales if you are wise enough to follow its advice. (Michael Gerber, bestselling author of The E-Myth and E-Myth Revisited)

No hype or theory here. Chet offers sound, yet simple, business advice to grow your business stronger than ever! (Tom Hopkins, author of How to Master the Art of Selling)

This book will be a classic for as long as businesses seek to improve their profits, their sales, and their futures. (Jay Conrad Levinson, author of the Guerrilla Marketing series)

This is by far the best sales book I have ever read and I have read hundreds. As someone who runs [more than] fifteen companies and employs more than six hundred people, I can honestly say this is a book I will refer to for decades to come. (A. Harrison Barnes, CEO, Juriscape)

Chet not only knows more and better ways to grow sales than probably anyone, but even more important, he has the systems that make his concepts realistic and easy to implement. Most of the books IÆve read on business growth are interesting. But this manÆs material is out-of- the-park great. (Loral Langemeier, author of The Millionaire MakerÆs Guide to Creating a Cash Machine for Life)

About the Author

Chet Holmes is the author of more than a dozen books in the Guerrilla Marketing series. A former vice president & creative director at J. Walter Thompson Advertising & Leo Burnett Advertising, he is chairman of Guerrilla Marketing International, a consulting firm serving large & small businesses worldwide. He lives San Rafael, California.
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I do a lot of work with small business implementing technology to empower their sales teams. Often this is the first step and should be the second. This book focuses on getting your sales department in order first and then I would recommend technology to facilitate the process and growth. Great work Chet - we are implementing many of these approaches with our own sales team and I am recommending this book to my clients too!

I read this book over a two week span and all I can say is WOW! This a wonderfully informative, entertaining and thought provoking book on building a successful business and brand. It's a must read for the small business owner looking to expand his/her business all the way to the successful CEO looking to cultivate the sales culture every business is looking for. The key to everything in business, which I believe Chet Holmes touches on in every chapter of this book is discipline. Without it, no one will ever do anything to get past there current station. A great read and I recommend it to everyone looking to take that next step.